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Dogalmighty17:
This is the most stupid thread in the history of niaraland.

No be fight na. Go an marry.

MXrep:
I thought Chindo is a native name for north East minority tribes. Is it an Islamic name?

It's not an Islamic name, but a cultural (Hausa) name. The name is usually given to someone who has additional fingers/toes i.e polydactyly

Abagworo:
The problem bedeviling Nigeria is democracy. Don't get me wrong Democracy is good but no nation can develop with our expensive type of democracy which lacks direction. Abacha I've always maintained is the best President Nigeria ever had hence the media brigandage and international conspiracy against him powered by enemies of Nigeria. He was not the one who annulled June 12 election but many people alive tiday including my own children associate him with it because the media made it so. Oil actually sold for as low as 11 DPB and his major problem was the Abiola mandate which he didn't annul.

I have same opinion on Nigerian democracy. We'll never have strong institution if we continue with it.

NAC1666:

What about Bauchi and Gombe state,I thought they are oil producing state.

They have the oil and gas reserves. But they are yet to start production

Great man. Father of medical education in Northern Nigeria

Baba Naptu, thank you for all you do here. I hope one day Seun will recognise and reward you for always feeding us with palatable historic nuggets

I have never seen or heard of any major project commissioned by Obaseki. A big disappointment

Photo 1 is leading while observing the situation of his followers Photo 2 is literally leading from the front. In normal circumstances, each of the two leadership styles have their places of application. For example, the NLC leader must lead from the front while confronting the govt the give workers a better package.
On the other hand, you don't expect a commanding officer of a batallion charging against bandits/terrorists to lead from the front, because it makes him vulnerable. Imagine the morale of a 200 man strong force when their Colonel commander is the first to be felled by enemy bullets.

You can see the correlation between the number of engineering graduates and the development of these countries. In Nigeria, we have brilliant engineers in the thousands. But the sordid situation is that the government doesn't take engineering education serious. Little or no to technical education. That's the reason that we are not innovative. The fact is, a country can not grow beyond the quality of its engineers.

If Elrufai had got this position, by now everyone for don feel am. But this is Nigeria, where selfishness trumps competence

Twale, Baba Naptu

Very useless journalism. Who told them that NNPC is a regulators? For those who don't know, the agency in charge of regulating Dangote Refinery is the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Regulatory Agency(NMDPRA).

Wow. Superb

When former Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike was appointed minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), it was met with a lot of excitement.
Wike’s appointment is historic. It marks the first instance of a Southerner holding the position of FCT minister in its history.
During his tenure as Rivers governor, Wike was celebrated as “Mr. Projects.” Hardly a month ed without a major project being inaugurated in Rivers.

He commissioned a plethora of infrastructure projects even up to his last day in office.
Wike engineered a transformation of Rivers’ infrastructure landscape and this achievement is precisely why many FCT residents greeted his appointment with enthusiasm, as the city yearns for the sort of development he brought to Rivers.
Nearly four decades after it was made the capital city of Nigeria, the Abuja landscape is still dotted with all manner of unfinished projects, some white elephant in nature.

Some of the mega projects appear to be jinxed as they have outlived several istrations of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) but remain uncompleted, despite the huge amount of money that went into them.

21st CENTURY CHRONICLE investigations have identified these multi-billion beautiful projects that are either abandoned, or with works ongoing at snail pace. Among them are the Millennium Tower and Cultural Centre, Utako General Hospital, World Trade Centre, and Abuja City Centre.

Residents of Abuja are eager to see how Wike’s touch will lead to the completion of some of these projects and turn around the story of Abuja as the graveyard of unfinished projects.

18 years on, Millennium Tower project lingers
Despite being called the Millennium Tower and Cultural Centre, the project located in Abuja’s Central Business District was conceptualised in 2005, five years into the new millennium, under the Olusegun Obasanjo-led istration, and projected to be completed in 2011.

The tower was designed by Italian architect Manfredi Nicoletti; and its construction awarded to another Italian construction firm, Salini at $333 million (N53 billion). It was planned to be to Abuja what other major monuments across the world such as the London Bridge, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Statue of Liberty in the United States, are to those countries.

Standing at 170 metres (560 ft), the tower was expected to be Nigeria’s tallest building when completed along with an eight-storey, low rise, pyramid shaped Cultural Centre. Construction for the tower started in 2008 and was topped out in 2014 whilst the cultural centre is still under construction. An underground arcade links the Millennium Tower and the Cultural Centre which are severed by a main road, while a disc-shaped section housing two floors include a restaurant where visitors will be able to enjoy spectacular views of the city below while they dine.

A lot of people considered the plan outlandish at the time, but that was not enough to stop the government.

As at 2017, construction work on the project was only 38 percent completed, even as there were no budgetary provisions for the project in 2016 and 2017.

In 2019, the contracting firm, during a visit by the FCT Minister, Muhammad Bello, to the site, revealed that it had submitted extension of time claims to the tune of N4.9 billion for 36 months to the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) and that an additional sum of $500 million (N38.2 billion) would be required for the project to be completed.

In the 2021 budget, N1 billion was allocated for design and construction of the project.
In 2022, former Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had said during an inspection of the state of the project that to complete it, the federal government would require $400 million and that it was looking in the direction of the private sector for the investment.
The new FCT minister, Nyesom Wike has, however promised to complete the project within two years.

The project is currently at 40 per cent completion and is expected to, upon completion, be self-reliant as revenues would be generated from all the commercial activities in the complex.
“It is a very ambitious project, but again if we are talking of Abuja being one of the best cities in the world, then we must have such a facility.“
“I can tell you it is not easy to go into that project, but we decided that whatever it takes, it is going to be one of the legacy projects for President Bola Tinubu.”

220-bed Utako General Hospital
This is one project that seems to have been jinxed and its construction has lingered for over a decade.

It is one very important public institution that would serve residents of Utako, Jabi, Wuye and other environs yet, it has received the least attention since it started.

Construction of the 220-bed Utako General Hospital started in 2011.
The contract for the construction and equipping of the hospital was awarded to M/S PPC Medical Systems at the cost of over N4.3 billion.

Ten years later, not much has been achieved as the contract site has been abandoned by the contractor and taken over by miscreants, while residents of neighbouring houses have turned it into a refuse dump site.

Though the various buildings at the site are at various stages of completion, not much progress has been made especially since 2014 when a part of the building under construction collapsed, necessitating a stop work order and setting up of a ministerial investigation headed by then permanent secretary, John Chukwu.

According to reports, as at 2016, approximately N2.222 billion of the N4.263 cost of the project was said to have been disbursed on the project which is still far from completion.
In 2019, the then secretary, FCT Health and Human Services Secretariat, Adamu Bappah, assured that the FCTA was poised to sort out all pending matters on the project.
The project has however remained abandoned with no hope in sifght for its completion.

N700 billion Abuja City Centre
In 2015, the federal government gave approval to Messrs. Chikason Group and partners, Eagle Hills, Abu Dhabi, to immediately commence work on the N700 billion Abuja City Centre project, after the architectural design was done and approved by the government.

Sitting on 17 hectares in Abuja’s city centre, the project was designed to include four international hotels, residential houses, offices and shops as well as condominium. The project was expected to be completed within a period of between 60-120 months;

Then FCT minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, revealed that the Centre would be a mixed-use development that has the capacity to generate about 10,000 jobs with its multiplier effect on the economy of the entire country.

“The land as well as the development control charges accruable to the FCT istration would be used as its equity contribution to the project.”

“In addition, the investors would construct a National Mall at the cost of 40million US Dollars at no cost to the FCT istration,” he said.
The status of the project remains unknown, eight years later.

Unending World Trade Centre
The World Trade Centre (WTC) complex under construction in the Central Business District of Abuja, was conceptualised to be the largest mixed-use development on the West African subcontinent.

Located on a land size of over 6,000 hectares in the Central Business District, the over $1 billion (N152 billion) project was launched in 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan with 2013 as target completion date.

It is being developed by The churchgate Group, a Nigerian real estate company, with Woods Bagot as the architect.

The projected completion date could not be met and was attributed to challenges in design and development.

There are seven skyscrapers planned for the site, two of which have already been topped out, with the others either under construction or at various stages of development. At 110 metres (361ft), the 24-floor WTC Tower 1, which topped out in 2015 is said to be the tallest residential building in Nigeria, while WTC Tower 2 is the tallest building in Abuja, standing at 120 metres (394ft).

Endless Apo-Karshi road
The traffic on the Abuja-Keffi road prior to its dualization, prompted the government to come up with another road to reduce traffic on the existing one.
The Apo-Karshi road project was, therefore, conceived and contract for its construction awarded in 2011.

The 13 kilometre Apo -Karshi road project was awarded to M/S Kakatar’ CE. Big. Limited in 2011, at N6, 355, 609, 124. 53 with a completion period of 20 months.

Twelve years later, there seems to be no end in sight even though the contractor, according to the Senate, had itted receiving full funding of the project.

The project has made too many budget appearances and Smart Adeyemi, chairman of the Senate committee on FCT, had said in 2022 during a visit to the project site that it had become embarrassing.

Poor budgetary provision and inadequate funding have been said to be the major factors militating against the project.

Earlier this year, it was reported that the contractor had jerked up the project cost to N97 billion and that the government was willing to make it N33 billion.

There is also the issue of design as the FCT istration has reportedly been unable to come up with an appropriate design for the Karshi-Apo section, which is about five of the over 13 kilometres of the entire stretch.

It was gathered that the FCT istration has so far paid the sum of N4,542,975,288.14 out of the N6.3 billion contract sum to the contracting firm, leaving a balance of the N1.8 billion of the original contract sum.

Karshi dam
In 2013, the FCTA announced that it had awarded contract for the design and construction of a dam treatment, plants, tanks, and other bulk water supply to Karshi satellite town.

The contract was awarded to SCC Nigeria.
About 10 years later, project seems to have been forgotten about as the government has done little or nothing with regards to it.

It was gathered that the contract was awarded at over N19.438 billion and the FCTA released over N3.501 billion to the company, after which work commenced on the project, with the digging of the first layer of both the main water borehole and the reservoir, but not much has been done so far to justify the money collected to execute the project.

Apo-Wasa road
This is another important road project designed to make life easier for FCT residents but the project has seen six years with no end in sight.
The road is supposed to start at Apo and run through Wasa district and Kuje town, terminating at Gwagwalada.

The Apo-Wasa road segment was awarded in 2017 by the FCT and was expected to be completed within 12 months at the cost of about N8.62 billion.

Other critical projects residents of the territory will love to see completed include Galadimawa roundabout interchange, Wuye-Wuse overhead bride/interchange, Area 1 roundabout, Gudu roundabout, among others.
Ever since he resumed as minister of the FCT, Wike has met with contractors, toured projects and said there is no room for abandoned projects in the territory.
The FCTA, according to the minister, is seeking alternative funding options to complete the projects.

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So, we've people who are expecting the good news to be fake? Perhaps just because the hate Tinubu. By God's grace, you'll get heart attack if you don't stop. If Tinubu succeeds, it benefits me and you more than him and his family.

Any NLer who fell to it should sue the website. Anything that hits FP on NL should be credible. There ought to be gates to check the veracity of adverts before they are disseminated.

Sanguine:
Deactivated my Whatsapp status so I don't even have access to post or see any status at all. I'm not interested in knowing whatever is happening in anybody's life.

Changed my Facebook to data mode. I don't see any pictures of anybody and anything, just captions. Hehehe.

Uninstalled Instagram.

Enter YouTube Once in a while to see skits from TheWinlos, latest movies from MZFP, etc.

Social media is what it is; fake life and ingredients on display here and there. I am very frugal, minimalist and rather anti-social. My life is JustSimpleLikeThat.com 😜

Please how did you deactivate Status?

The average northerner doesn't dream of living in another man's country - whether in the eastern or western hemisphere. We might travel out to seek for education and business opportunities BUT the heart is attached to the homeland. That's more reason why northerns are more patriotic. In contrast, we have thousands(or millions?) of southerners who don't want their next generation to be Nigerians. Different strokes for different folks
The southerner will cross northern Nigeria to embark on a treacherous journey into Europe. The northerners transport them along the way but they're in no way enamored by the scamper their compatriots do.

festacman:
Having read his resume, I believe Khalil Halilu is a better fit for SMEDAN or NITDA than NASENI but I wish him success in office .

About NASENI
NASENI, by its mandate and scope of operation is the Nigerian only purpose built Agency designed to conduct developmental work in the areas of manufacturing and as such, it is capable of coordinating the proliferation of technologies developed either within or outside of its Centers including patents obtained. Technologies developed in the areas of spares, components and systems engineering are to be transferred to Entrepreneurs for the production of goods and services. Nigeria can have the benefit of a rapid technological development by strengthening NASENI. The mission of NASENI is to establish and nurture appropriate and dynamic Science and Engineering Infrastructure-base for achieving home-initiated and home-sustained industrialization through the development of relevant processes, capital goods and equipment necessary for job creation, national economic well-being and progress. A vision is, therefore, set to create an enabling knowledge-driven environment for local mass-production of standard parts, goods and services required for the Nation’s Technology Advancement. The mandate of NASENI is specifically in the area of capital goods research, production, and reverse engineering with respect to the following broad areas:
- Engineering Materials;
- Industrial and Analytical Chemical Materials;
-Scientific Equipment and components;
Engineering Equipment;
Engineering Designs and Standardization;
Power Equipment;
Source: NASENI website

I concur. NASENI is an engineering outfit, and should be rightly headed by one. I pray he's able to learn fast on the job

He added that the price reduction will come at year end after they open the new lines in order to force the market to comply even if the likes of Dangote don't reduce their prices. Our fingers are crossed.

Look at how disgusting Amnesty International is! Boldly defending an act that is against Nigerian laws

Very relevant for our times. Many times what people post on their WhatsApp statuses are not readily available. You'll pay for a particular item but they will come to you saying that "it is finished" "the quantity can't fulfil your order" "it will be available in 2 months time because it's on on transit from China"! This damages relationships. That's why I prefer physical stores or online stores. Islam is a guidance for mankind

I was once at the Edo State Secretariat. I was impressed with the infrastructure. Fairly maintained. 24 hours electricity. Solid buildings. Working elevators etc. However, I'm not sure this big leap will work if all the civil servants don't have the right tools and training

More reason why military intervention should not be on the table. Same way the northerners are protesting on the Niger conundrum is same way the SWers will do if Nigeria threatens to attack Benin Republican or Togo.

kokoBoii:
I can't wait for this war to start and tear the whole west Africa apart, I just pray this escalates very badly because the chaos go too sweet me.. I'm currently praying for the same thing currently happening in Libya now to start happening in West Africa...This might just be the answer to my prayers

Back to you, slowpoke

Thank you for bringing this. I thought about same thing few days ago. I a particular resourceful NLers, Explorers, whom every regular visitor can attest to his compelling and educating threads. But for many months, he hasn't done any thread as he's been busy with his real estate. There are numerous others especially in the Travel section. I will not dare forget our Baba naptu.
These people need to be rewarded because they pull more traffic to the website. I hope @Seun heeds to this suggestion

Nairaland Resident Pastor, it's been a while o😀. You create a post with Holiness and then switch to comment as Righteousness 😜

Ethnic killings have been happening in southern Kaduna for more than 30 years. But here we have these guys placing all the blames at the altar of Elrufai. The SK people know quite well what to do in order to entrench lasting piece in the region, but it seems they are not ready to do such. Both muslims and christians should coexist peacefully.

If you don't know the difference between Southern Kaduna and Kaduna South, don't quote me.

Great guy, right for the job

FreeStuffsNG:
That's not a credible site. Fake news. Here's the company's latest update on its August proposed date https://nairaland.sitesunblocked.org/7771045/dangote-refinery-production-commencement-deadline

Valu Chain is credible in the industry

Not working. #WhatsAppDown